Of Mrs. Moore and the echo
in the Marabar Caves:
… but the echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur “Pathos, piety, courage—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.”
E. M. FORSTER
A Passage to India
Thou believest that there is
one God; thou doest well: the devils
also believe, and tremble.
The General Epistle of James
2:19
How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is
surprised at anything which happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Another part of our same belief is that many creatures will be damned; for example the angels who fell from heaven through pride, and are now fiends; and those men on earth who die apart from the Faith of Holy Church, namely, the heathen; and those, too, who are christened but live unchristian lives, and so die out of love—all these shall be condemned to hell everlastingly, as Holy Church teaches me to believe. This being so I thought it quite impossible that everything should turn out well, as our Lord was now showing me. But I had no answer to this revelation save this: “What is impossible to you is not impossible to me. I shall honour my word in every respect, and I will make everything turn out for the best.” Thus was I taught by God’s grace.…
JULIAN OF NORWICH
Revelations of Divine Love